detroit is a city which at one time had 1,800,000 people. because of bad politics and bad politicians, and we may have just seen one, it's now declined to about 800,000 people. over half the houses in detroit are unnecessary. it brings down the value of the whole city, and this idea that we don't have to solve our problems because somebody out there is going to solve it for us is at the heart of the debate that frankly we didn't do very well in the election which is where's the money coming from? why does the rest of the country owe that person money for a town they're failing in? she's a city council woman. > >> sean: 50 million americans on food stamps and you got excoriated for calling him the food stamp president. >> we want to find way to empower americans to solve their own problems. i'd like to give detroit more freedom to solve its own problems, not have it sit there with a handout waiting for somebody else to come and give it cash. >> sean: maybe i should have voted for obama. i could have asked for a bailout. i could have gotten an